RE: KAT 5 Mark 2 and AVI lynx

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tony

> 1. Independant Terrestial TV in each room. Easy when you have COAX,
> and with Scion I believe, which splits existing signal, to allow upto
> 8 terrestial channels. Can this be done for either Kat5 or AviLynx.
>

There are several systems that include internal tuners for terrestrial TV
but they are all analogue. As there are only 5 Terrestrial Analogue
channels
in the UK (only 4 in an awful lot of it) there seems to be little point is
having analogue tuners built in, especially when Freeview boxes are now
down
to £30 and give you a load more channels as well as radio stations.


> As both seem to take AV feeds, would I need say 5 cheap digital
> receivers off a single coax and feed that as separate sources.

Exactly

> With AVi Lynx this would appear to work quite simply as each
destimation
> selects a source. For Kat5 I need, I seems I would need to feedback a
> second Cat 5 and thus double CAT-5 sockets used
>

You would only need single CAT5 cable to each room.

> 2. I assume Sky/DVD/Video would have direct AV feeds and should
> present little bother
>
> 3. Remote control. I dont see how to operate Kat5 to change source
other
> than swap leads (am I wrong?)

There are several basic Matrix switchers that just take AV in and out that
can be used to feed the KAT5 units. Now that the Mk2 units are in
production
my time has now been freed up to finish developing the switcher.

> and if we feed say Sky to two rooms, can
> we select who gets the IR codes for remote control?

The KAT switcher will route IR signals from any room viewing a source to
that device. There will also be the ability to select a source as
"Exclusive" (anyone can select it to watch but only you get
control), or
"Private" (only you can watch and control it) for when more
specialist
programs are one :-)

Regards

Keith